When Oklahoma State and Utah get underway on Saturday afternoon, it will be a spectacle for many reasons.
First and foremost, this game is likely to play a huge role in what the Big 12 standings might look like at the end of the year.
The 12th-ranked Utes and 14th-ranked Cowboys both have College Football Playoff aspirations heading into Big 12 play, and the winner of this game will immediately have a leg up in the race to Arlington.
There’s also the betting angle on this game, which opened at -2.0 in Oklahoma State’s favor but has flipped over to Utah being favored by 2.5 points as of Tuesday afternoon.
Add to that the question of whether Cam Rising would play in this game — which he will — and you’ve got all kinds of reasons to be tuned in on Saturday.
However, there is another obscure reason to tune into this game, which is quite comical. We might be witnessing the oldest starting quarterbacks in a college football game ever. With Rising and Oklahoma State quarterback Alan Bowman both being seventh-year seniors, we’ve got quite the pair of old dogs in this game.
The combined age of the starting quarterbacks in this game is 49. How old is that? Well, College Sports Only put it into perspective on Twitter for us.
In case you are wondering, that game will pit Colts’ second-year quarterback Anthony Richardson (22) against Bears’ rookie Caleb Williams (22).
Saturday’s contest kicks off at 3:00 p.m. CT with coverage on FOX.
